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Maarten L. Buis
Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 36
72074 Tuebingen
Germany
http://www.maartenbuis.nl
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--- On Tue, 22/12/09, B Web <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have some group data (2 groups),
> but my question is about the counts
> (or averages) between groups.
>
> tab group, sum( tot_asian)
> tab group, sum( tot_white)
> tab group, sum( tot_pacisland)
> tab group, sum( tot_afam)
>
> I would like to get a chi-square test, but not sure how to
> easily get these down to a 2x2 table where I can do a
> chi-square test across group on counts on average. The
> tot_ variables are continuous, but I think the chi-square
> test is the right thing here.
The key to determining the right test is specifying the
null-hypothesis, i.e. determining what it is that you
want to test. So, what is your null-hypothesis?
-- Maarten
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